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Main article: List of American Horror Story episodes
American Horror Story's first season follows the Harmon family: Ben (Dylan McDermott), Vivien (Connie Britton) and Violet (Taissa Farmiga), who move from Boston to Los Angeles after Vivien gives birth to a stillborn baby and Ben has an affair with Hayden (Kate Mara), one of his students. On arrival, they learn that the previous owners of their new mansion, a gay couple, apparently died in a murder/suicide. Their neighbor Constance (Jessica Lange) and her daughter Addie (Jamie Brewer) become frequent, if sometimes unwelcome, guests. Addie, who has Down syndrome, seems to have a supernatural connection with the house's mysterious past. Larry Harvey (Denis O'Hare) also harasses Ben and murders Hayden, when Hayden arrives to try and resume her affair with Ben. The house also "comes with" Moira O'Hara (Frances Conroy/Alexandra Breckenridge), a housekeeper who, to men, appears as young and seductive, but, to women, old and matronly.
Ben begins seeing patients out of his home office. One in particular, the possibly psychotic Tate Langdon (Evan Peters), takes a keen interest in kindred spirit Violet, who suffers from depression. Ben is unaware that Tate is both a ghost and the son of Constance. As the family settles into the home, bizarre and often violent events begin to occur with increasing regularity. It is soon revealed that there have been upwards of 20 violent deaths in the home over the course of its history, so much so that it is known on sightseeing tours as "The Murder House". The family struggles with their own personal tribulations, oblivious to the reality of their home even as more people die and take up residence as ghosts. Upon exploring the attic, Vivien discovers a bondage suit. Unknowingly, she has sex with Tate whom she mistakes for Ben in the bondage suit, shortly after making love with him, resulting in the rare occurrence of becoming pregnant with twins by different fathers. Several ghosts in the house, including Hayden, conspire to drive Vivien mad so that they can raise the babies as their own.
On Halloween, the one day in which the dead can walk the earth among the living, Violet learns that Tate is an infamous school shooter, who killed a library full of his fellow teenagers (as well as crippling a teacher and setting Larry Harvey on fire) as a ploy to punish his mother Constance for having Tate's younger (and deformed) brother euthanized. Addie is run over by a car, leading to Constance failing to get her corpse moved to the house property to imprison her spirit so that she can be reunited with her brother's ghost. Vivien meanwhile learns from the "Murder House Tour", that the house was the home of a back alley abortionist and that the monstrous ghost in the basement of the house is the ghost of the doctor's son, who was killed by a patient's vengeful boyfriend and resurrected as a monstrous "Infantata" monster.
Faced with the monster Tate is and her own romantic feelings for him, Violet kills herself, something she doesn't realize was successful until weeks later when she realizes she cannot leave the house. Tate convinces Violet to lie and help her father commit Vivien to an insane asylum, as Ben is convinced that the second father of her child is a neighborhood security officer. Meanwhile, Constance enlists the help of a psychic (Sarah Paulson) to help her talk to Addie; when Violet realizes that Tate had sex with her mom and encountering the gay couple, who she discovered was murdered by Tate, she breaks up with him and tells Constance about what Tate did. Constance discovers from the psychic, to her horror, that Tate's child with Vivien will become the Anti-Christ. When Moira and Violet tells Ben the truth about her being a ghost, Tate being the "rubber man", and the evil in the house, he has Vivien freed from the asylum.
Vivien gives birth to the twins in the house, with Moira recruiting the more benevolent ghosts of the house to help deliver the children. Sadly, Vivien and one of the children die, leaving Ben with sole surviving twin. Ben is murdered by Hayden, who hangs him to simulate a suicide, but Hayden is kept from getting the surviving child by Constance, who is helped by the ghost of a lover who Hayden murdered. Constance hides the child and tells the police that Ben killed himself out of grief for his wife's death and that Violet (whose body is never found) ran off with the surviving child.
Now trapped in the house, the Harmons (Vivien, Ben, Violet, and the deceased twin) team up with Moira to keep further families from the house by fake haunting the place every time it is sold. Tate meanwhile has consigned himself to living with Hayden, both of which have been blocked out by the Harmons using a trick that Tate taught Violet when she first died. Elsewhere, Constance (who left town to create a cover story regarding the Harmon child she is now raising) returns to Los Angeles but finds that her grandson (The Anti-Christ) has murdered his nanny, after returning home from getting her hair done.

Quoted from mikechristine1

OH MY GOD    I JUST ABOUT SPIT OUT A GULPFUL OF COFFEE


I really need to avoid anything by mouth when I'm at this board

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That's why when I'm on this board, I generally try to enjoy all my refreshments anally.